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Image description: Four images showing a candle burning down with the melting wax being collected inside a transparent candlestick resulting in another candle being formed.


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[–] vampire@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The wax is the fuel... Ah fuck it. Infinite candle. I see nothing wrong with this.

[–] esc27@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

This is nothing. Try plugging a surge protector into itself. Infinite power!!!

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Without the wick the new candle won't burn for very long. Or at all.

[–] atkion@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it looks like there's another wick preloaded into the bottom half

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah, that would work. But only once.

[–] HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Infinite candle glitch

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

this is against the sixth law of thermodynamics which says infinite candles are impossible

[–] Missmuffet@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You can just put the candle in the container to begin with haha

[–] lettruthout@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

'Having trouble believing that the wax wouldn't cool before it got much beyond the flame, much less all the way to the bottom of that container.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

It would be far better to just recycle the wax left over normally. Especially because most of it actually does burn in a typical candle design.